COLONEL GILPINasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether the sum of £450, voted in the Civil Service Estimates 1869–70 and 1870–71, for increasing the pay of the Clerks in Convict Prisons, has been disbursed as voted; if not, what has become of it?
§ MR. STANSFELDsaid, in reply, that the sum of £450 for increasing the pay of the clerks in the convict prisons had been inserted in the Estimates of 1869–70, but was not required or expended in that year. It was also asked for in 1870–1 by an error. The result was that, as in 1869–70, the amount would be returned to the Exchequer.